Lawrence T. Jones III Texas photography collection

A Guide to the Collection

Lawrence T. Jones III Texas photography collection contains a comprehensive overview of Texas photography, ca. 1846-1945. Jones assembled his collection over more than 30 years from the 1970s to 2008. This important collection documents all aspects of Texas photography including the various types practiced from its earliest introduction to the state, a large array of subjects and styles, and examples by numerous photographers, both professional and itinerant, who documented Texas, the contiguous states and Mexico. Included are daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, stereographs, albums and paper print photographs in various formats. Subjects for research include the Civil War and other military history, biography, African Americans, Indians, women’s history, social and domestic history, architecture, transportation, ranching, agriculture, commerce, material culture, costume, and urban and rural history. Digitized images from this collection are available at http://digitalcollections.smu.edu/all/cul/jtx/index.asp

Lawrence T. Jones III was born in Greenville, Texas in 1945. He earned a B.A. in English, East Texas State University, Commerce, 1967 and a M.S. in Sociology, East Texas State University, Commerce, 1970. His life-long interest in Texas history and photography led him to begin collecting Texas images more than 30 years ago. Jones has provided research and images from his collection for museum and library exhibits, state park sites, television productions and numerous publications over the years for such prestigious presses as the Smithsonian Institution, Stanford University Press, Texas A&M University Press, Texas State Historical Association, Texas Tech University Press, Time-Life Books, University of Arkansas Press, University of North Carolina Press,
University of Oklahoma Press, University of Texas Press.

Publications:

Jones, Lawrence T. III and Jerry Thompson. Civil War and Revolution on the Rio Grande Frontier: A Narrative and Photographic History. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2004.

The Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photography Collection represents over 30 years of collecting. The images are an overview of Texas photographers, photography and history dating from ca. 1846 to 1945. The Jones collection of 5,000 images is one of the most comprehensive and valuable Texas-related photography collections and documents all aspects of Texas photography, including the various types practiced from its earliest introduction to the state: daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, stereographs and paper print photographs in various formats.

There are a significant number of subjects and styles represented, and examples by numerous photographers, both professional studio photographers and itinerants, who documented Texas, the contiguous states and Mexico. The images range from portraits of such important figures as Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Cynthia Ann Parker, and Civil War soldiers to those showing fleeting moments in time and ones that document Texas history. The collection can be utilized in many ways: research, publication, exhibitions, and education on all levels. Subjects for research include Civil War and other military history, biography, African Americans, Indians, women's history, social and domestic history, architecture, transportation, ranching, agriculture, commerce, material culture, costume, and urban and rural history.

Initially the collection was arranged by process and size, and much of the original order has been maintained. However, some photographs of similar subjects were moved together even if in different sizes for ease in access and a few new categories such as Photographica were added. Some photographs were rehoused. The original collection inventory was used as the basis for the finding aid.

Buckner, James "Buck" Barry in casual pose, by Edward C. Drane, Corsicana, Texas, June 1853. Inscribed on back, name, date, location, and photographer. Earliest known photographic image of a "genuine" Texas Ranger, as opposed to later Ranger activities as an adjunct to U.S. Army operations. Basic Texas Books (11) remarks of Barry's autobiography: "Best memoir of a Texan Ranger during the mid-19th century, covering his early life in North Carolina as hunter and schoolteacher, trip at the age of 23 through Texas in the last year of the Republic, service in the Mexican War under Jack Hays, and life as a pioneer on what was then the farthest frontier of Texas." Sixth plate daguerreotype in case with rosette motif, good condition.

Hardeman, Brigadier General William Polk, (1816-1898) in 1st Lieutenant uniform, circa 1846-47. Hardeman was a soldier in the Texas Revolution, in the Mexican War, a Texas Ranger and Confederate general. The case and brass mat help date the image to the 1846-1848, Mexican War era. Sixth plate daguerreotype in case with mixed floral bouquet motif, good condition.

Maxey, Brigadier General Samuel Bell, (1825-1895), as 2nd Lieutenant, 7th U.S. Infantry, circa 1847, by James Maguire, New Orleans. Maguire also worked in Corpus Christi. Photographer is identified in mat, upper top right. Maxey served in the Mexican War, was a major Confederate figure, and later served in the US Senate. The image is of Maxey right after West Point where he roomed with Stonewall Jackson. Sixth plate daguerreotype in case with lyre motif, good condition.

Daguerreotypes, Texas Non-military

Andrews, Julius A., ca. 1858. Sitter was about 18 years of age. Sixth plate lightly tinted daguerreotype in half case with urn and mixed floral motif, excellent condition. There is another image of Andrews later in life in Series 1 of this collection as a colonel in the 32nd Regimental Cavalry in Texas (see Series 1, Box 7, Tintypes, Texas Military Related.)

Dyer, H. P., by S. P. Woolley, 1855, Bonham, Texas. Inside case under image is original documentation on the photograph, "H.P. Dyer, Taken Nov. 27th 1855, age 21 years, 11 mo. and 25 days. Taken in Bonham by S.J. Wooley [sic], artist." Also, accompanying note by Dyer indicating daguerreotype taken above Russell’s Store, Bonham, and Dyer’s occupation at the time was, "Studying medicine under Dr. T.C. Everts." Woolley was an early Texas travelling photographer, see Palmquist, working from Bonham, see Haynes. Sixth plate daguerreotype in half case with scroll and leaf motif, good condition.

Martin, Dr. T. R., probably taken by an amateur photographer, Jonathan B. Clapton at Elgin, Texas, 1876. Unusual late date noted behind the image on the cover, "Taken at Elgin, Tex. July 1876, T.R. Martin, M.D., first effort of Jno. B. Clapton." However, process, style of case and clothing may indicate an earlier date for the daguerreotype. Sixth plate daguerreotype in case with rectangular motif, poor condition.

Sneed, Miranda (1809-1878), married to Sebron G. Sneed, moved from Washington County, Arkansas, to Austin, 1848. Portrait of Sneed in floral dress with pink tinted bow, wearing lace gloves and holding a folded fan, photographed by unknown artist circa 1849-50. Quarter plate daguerreotype in plain case, very good condition.

Unidentified girl with manuscript note in back of case under plate, "Emma at the age of 8 years," circa 1850 signed I. Altman on mat lower left. Found in Austin, portrait of girl with floral dress seated in simple wooden chair. Sixth plate daguerreotype with mismatched case with leaf and mixed floral bouquet motifs, excellent condition.

Unidentified man, Galveston, Texas, provenance circa 1850s. "S. Anderson, Artist," stamped in mat bottom center. Anderson was a photographer who worked in New Orleans and Houston. Daguerreotype found in Houston. Sixth plate daguerreotype in half case with bird in oval motif, excellent condition.

Unidentified men (merchants?), Brownsville, Texas, circa 1853. Nice horizontal pose of three men, includes period newspaper article glued into back of case discussing Borderlands and Texas. Quarter plate daguerreotype, good condition with tarnishing at edges, seals intact.

Adams, Private G. H., 1st Texas Heavy Artillery (King's Battery), CSA. With this is a document, a pass for him to visit his home in Brownwood, signed by Confederate officers, including an obscure Confederate general whose signature is difficult to find. Purchased directly from descendents of Private Adams. Sixth plate ambrotype in mismatched case with flower vase motif on top and scroll design verso.

Battaile, Private C. R., Col. John Ford's command, Palmito Ranch, last battle of Civil War [see page 44, Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray, 1861-1865 by Mamie Yeary]. Only known photograph of a common Confederate soldier in the Palmito battle. Sixth plate ambrotype in half case with floral design, good condition. Published in Thompson, A Wild and Vivid Land, p. 144.

Blount, Thomas William, (1839-1934), double portrait with another Confederate, from Blount family estate, San Augustine. Identification of images based on provenance. De-accessioned from Walker County Historical Society. Supposedly Blount was the first Texan to volunteer for the Confederate Army. He was at the organization of the Confederate States at Montgomery, Alabama, February-March, 1861. Blount's father was a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. Quarter plate ambrotype, in fair condition in half case with arabesque design.

Brown, Private George T., 3rd Texas Cavalry Regiment, Arizona Brigade. Brown holds a pistol; provenance directly from family. Brown is buried in the old Belton, Texas cemetery located on the Leon River. Sixth plate ambrotype in good condition in case with quatrefoil and leaf design.

Cotter, Private Robert, 16th Texas Infantry, 1st Texas Mounted Rifles, 13th Texas Dismounted Cavalry. Cotter wears a rare Texas star belt plate. [Texas star belt plate, annotated copy of Blessington's book (The Campaigns of Walker’s Texas Division, by a Private Soldier... New York: Published for the author by Lange, Little, & Co., 1875), with notations, corrections and augmentations by the author]. Cotter had a long, exciting career as a Texas Ranger, Battle of Washita, fought with Ford in the 1850s. Sixth plate lightly tinted ambrotype in mint condition, in case with octagon center and leaf motif border. Also, a cdv of Cotter and one of his wife.

Gregg, Brigadier General John, (1828-1864) Interesting, early war image of Gregg as Colonel of the 7th Texas Infantry seated with his hand on his sword. He was one of the commanders in Hood's Brigade, Texas, in Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, CSA. A Confederate General, Gregg died in action during the siege of Petersburg outside Richmond, October 7, 1864. Sixth plate ambrotype in good condition in case with quatrefoil design, published in a book on Confederate Generals (Vol. 3).

Henry, Corp. John and Wife, 5th Texas Mounted Volunteers, CSA. Not in uniform but positively identified. Henry fought in New Mexico campaign. Beautiful lightly tinted ambrotype, unusual for the manuscript notations on paper glued to the case relating to Confederate Dead Letter Office, where it was found. Quarter plate ambrotype, very good condition in case with arabesque and floral design.

Knittel, Herman, Co. C, Waul's Texas Legion CSA. Jones identified sitter, because he had seen the image in a thesis (Hasskarl & Hasskarl, Waul's Texas Legion, 1862-1865. Cop.1985). The most difficult images to locate of Confederates are from Texas, Arkansas, Missouri. Quarter plate ambrotype in very good condition in case with floral vase design. Missing cover glass.

Mayfield, Private J. E., 8th (known in the field as the 12th) Texas Infantry Regiment, CSA. Interesting image of Mayfield holding rifle. Sixth plate ambrotype, excellent condition in case with two birds on a ring.

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Ambrotypes, Texas Military Related and Non-military (17)

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Robinson, Private (later Capt.) J. F., Co. A, 33rd Texas Cavalry Regiment, Duff's Co., CSA. Identified in back of case. Robinson was an interesting person who fought against pro-Union German settlers in the massacre on the Nueces River. Sixth plate ambrotype with lightly tinted green collar and cuff in good condition, half case with simple decorative motif. Published in SWHQ 2002.

Scott, Josephine "Josie" M., holding portrait of her husband, Captain John G. Scott, 1st Texas Infantry Regiment, by Isaac Cline, Palestine, Anderson County, July 1863. Photographer and sitter [Josephine Tully Scott] identified and dated inside the case under plate. Cline was a photographer in the Mexican War. Ninth plate ambrotype in case with scalloped oval design in mint condition. Published in Jones Confederate Calendar and elsewhere. Used as frontispiece to Palmquist & Kailbourn, Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide...1839-1865 (Stanford University Press, 2005).

Scott, William C., 6th Texas Cavalry, CSA. "W. C. Scott" in ink on back, wonderful image, with Whitney revolver and in fur cap with leather bill. Scott was with an important brigade commanded by General Sul Ross. Quarter plate ambrotype, half case with delicate roses design, in excellent condition.

Stanton, Private David E., Co. D, 16th Texas Infantry, CSA. Stanton was in Walker's Texas Division. Very good large image, of Stanton holding revolver. Quarter plate ambrotype, in half case with curved octagon motif. (This image and the one listed below of his wife were possibly housed as a pair in one case.)

Stanton, Mrs. David E (Amanda E.) Quarter plate ambrotype with gilded jewelry, a bit light otherwise in good condition, cracked cover glass, half case with curved octagon motif. (This image and the one listed above of her husband were possibly housed as a pair in one case.)

Carpenter, Nancy, wife of Evan Shelby Carpenter (see tintypes for his image). Beautiful image of handsome woman with landscape backdrop. Difficult to find identified images of Texas women of this era. Quarter plate ambrotype with light tinting, very good condition, some wear to case with mixed floral motif.

Hitchcock, Lent Munson, (1816-1869), and wife Emily and two children, circa 1855. Hitchcock was a naval officer, Texas pioneer and one of the founders of Galveston. With three identified accompanying images of Hitchcock family members. Half-plate ambrotype in case with oval grape motif, excellent condition.

Kilgore, John Franklin, Texas farmer, circa 1860. Identified in back of case and verified by the 1860 census. Sixth plate ambrotype with tinted cheeks and pink shirt in case with scalloped oval motif, very good condition.

Knight, Mrs. Serena C., (1822-1913) seated in Gothic chair holding baby, circa 1858. She came to Texas in 1846. Research file includes her obituary. Sixth plate ambrotype in good condition, mismatched case, top with oval motif, bottom with roses in oval motif.

Lowe, Della, "sold apples in Marshall, Texas," circa 1857. African American woman with apples identified in back of case. She was perhaps an ex-slave or free black. Sixth plate ambrotype somewhat darkened but overall good condition, half case with bird motif.

McCown, Francis (?) and child, Red River County, Texas, circa 1860. Image presumably of father and daughter (includes letter dated Oct. 9, 1860 from Red River County where photograph was probably made expressing the desire to return to Arkansas at some point; letter refers to having their “likeness” made and sending it). Sixth plate ambrotype with manuscript label addressed to “Mrs. E. R. Barnes, Jackson Port [sic] Jackson County Ark”, postmark Clarksville, Texas, attached to front of case with rectangle motif, good condition.

Unidentified attractive young woman wearing elaborate cameo jewelry and off the shoulder dress found in Travis County, circa 1855. Sixth plate ambrotype in a papier mache book form case inlaid with mother of pearl with gilt and applied color on floral arrangement in vase, fine condition.

Unidentified ambrotype of beautiful young woman with dark hair wearing gold crucifix, earrings, bracelets, pin, and black lace gloves, seated at table with books, circa 1860. Sitter is possibly of French or Mexican descent. Purchased from Sneed estate. Sixth plate ambrotype with tinted gold jewelry and flowers on her dress in case with bird in circle motif, mint condition.

Considerant, Victor Prosper (attributed), (1808-1893), founder of La Reunion in Dallas, ambrotype made in San Antonio, dated March 1860 in plate lower left. Interesting horizontal portrait of Considerant with shoulder-length hair, seated off center in the picture frame with his elbow propped on a stack of books, hand on the side of his head. One of the books shown is a title by Considerant, Au Texas. Found in San Antonio, where Considerant was living at the time. Quarter plate ambrotype, excellent condition.

Roberts, Oran Milo, (1816-1869) lawyer, governor of Texas and Senator, this ambrotype was made at the time he was President of Texas Secession Convention in Austin, circa 1860-1861, attributed to photographer William W. Bridgers. Purchased from descendents along with other photographs of him. Sixth plate lightly tinted ambrotype, good condition.

Parker, Cynthia Ann, (circa 1825-circa 1871) by William W. Bridgers, Austin, 1861. Accompanied with excellent documentation from a legislator in the Secession Convention (see Jones's files, plus article in SWHQ). The ladies in Austin brought her to Bridgers's studio for this photograph, and this is the only known extant original photograph of Cynthia Ann Parker. The original photograph that appears in the book on Parker is now gone, and there are only copy prints. Sixth plate tintype, half case with detailed notes glued verso about Cynthia Ann and the provenance of the piece, slightly darkened background, fine, crisp image.

Ross, Pease, 1861, by William W. Bridgers, Austin. The young Comanche boy was captured at the battle at the Pease River by Texas Ranger and soldier Sul Ross (1838-1896) during the raid when Cynthia Ann Parker was taken from the tribe. The Ross family raised the boy. It is possibly the earliest known photographic image of a Comanche. Sixth plate tintype in half case with note glued to back, good condition. Note reads: “Captured with Cynthia Ann Parker. Sul Ross took him to Waco to live with family. He gave him the name Pease, as he was captured near that river. Ross was later Gov. of Texas.” Published in SWHQ, Jan. 1990.

Unidentified African American slave boy, double portrait, front and back views, from Smith family estate, Smithville, Texas, circa 1860. Highly unusual and rare images, see Hidden Witness by Jackie Napoleon Wilson. Background: according to family lore, the family who owned him wanted to document that he had not been abused or whipped. Sixth plate tintype in double case with oval motif, mint condition.

Unidentified men, perhaps two brothers from a Williamson County estate, circa 1857-58. One man has a cross pin in his tie. Quarter plate tinted ambrotype, double case with arabesque and floral motif, very good condition.

Non-ambrotype oval portrait of a woman, dated Oct. 1873, perhaps an opaltype or opalotype in fabric case. Also included is a piece of paper identifying her as "Miss Anna E. Cameron, Manchaca, Texas."

Carpenter, Evan Shelby, 21st Texas Cavalry Regiment, CSA (see ambrotypes for his wife’s portrait). Standing portrait of Carpenter holding his rifle; small silver conchos are sewn onto the sides of his pants. Identified in case along with notes, "Hurah [sic] for the Confederacy. I expect to live and die a Rebel. Texas the fighting curse of oppression is upon thee. Departed April 1st. Evan Shelby Carpenter." Quarter plate tintype in half case with embossed bouquet of flowers, good condition, but slightly dark. Published in NM Historical Society, where it was misidentified.

Oliphant, William J., 6th Texas Infantry Regiment, CSA. Gold buttons on uniform were made from Mexican gold coins made by his father. Oliphant's father was jewelers on 6th Street, Austin. Oliphant was captured later by Yankees who took his gold buttons when he was captured at Arkansas Post, Arkansas. Father-in-law of Walter Prescott Webb. Oliphant was a photographer, and after the Civil War he studied photography with Alexander Gardner in Washington, D.C. See 1932 article in SWHQ by Webb. Purchased from family descendents. Quarter plate tintype, fair condition. (Stored with the Oliphant collection, see Series 6, Box 3, Oliphant Family Cased Images.)

Taylor, Emzy (left), 16th Texas Infantry Regiment, Confederate States Army. Large tintype of two soldiers in uniform standing side by side with muskets and bayonets, pistols, revolver. Portrait was acquired from a Taylor family descendant, man (right) identified as G. M. Taylor, possibly G. W. Taylor. Half plate tintype in leather case with embossed design of a pedestal vase with flowers.

View 1 This is likely a Confederate foundry, apparently with slave labor. Image with men on the roof of foundry and below, tree behind the building has Spanish moss on branches. These may be the only existing foundry photos with slaves working outdoors, perhaps taken in Texas (conjectured foundries would be Alexander McGowan in Houston, who had a foundry on Buffalo Bayou, or J.H. Dance Revolver Foundry in East Columbia on the Brazos). Jones found in Texas, in the Houston area, in the early 1990s. Half plate tintype in case with oval motif, very good to excellent condition.

View 2 Confederate foundry, possibly Houston, Texas, circa 1864-1865. Image of side of building again with men on roof. Half plate tintype in case with mixed floral urn motif, very good to excellent condition.

View 3 Confederate foundry, possibly Houston, Texas, circa 1864-1865. Image of a group of men close-up, two in CSA uniforms. Half plate tintype in case with grapes in oval motif, very good to excellent condition.

View 4 Confederate foundry, possibly Houston, Texas, circa 1864-1865. Image of a group of men in front of trees, some in CSA uniforms. Half plate tintype in embossed leather case with lyre memorial design in very good to excellent condition.

Haynes, Charles Power and Sarah Jane (Dunman), sister of Texas Ranger Bill Dunman, from Haynes Family estate, circa 1860, attributed to William W. Bridgers, Austin. Haynes was an early Texas cowboy, see Hunter, Trail Drivers. Other images in the Jones collection relate to this one. Sixth plate tintype, crisp image in case with arabesque motif, in fine condition, probably made by Oliphant.

Norwood family, post mortem of small girl, from estate, Navasota, Texas, circa 1860. Uncommon genre for Texas; Jones has seen only one other such image for Texas in thirty years. Quarter plate tintype in simple case with leaf border, somewhat darkened image.

Unidentified family group of parents and five children, possibly Fayette County, Texas, circa 1860. Primitive horizontal grouping with white hanging backdrop probably by an itinerant photographer. Quarter plate tintype in a half case with rectangular design, excellent condition. Published and has been on PBS, "The American Experience."

Unidentified girls, probably two sisters, from Travis County, circa 1858, possibly by William Bridgers(?). Older girl wears a cross on necklace and the other girl has cross earrings. Sixth plate tinted and gilded tintype in case with arabesque motif, mint condition.

Unidentified seated man, from New Braunfels, Comal County, circa 1865. German newspaper glued to back of case, smaller tintype of woman inside case behind portrait of man. Sixth plate tintype in case with oval motif, mat has Union motif with eagles and flag, good condition.

Hamby, William Robert (1845-1915) posed in captain’s uniform although he was really a private in 4th Texas Infantry (Hood’s Brigade), later newspaper editor and established Texas Railroad Commission

Hardeman, Brigadier General William Polk, (1816-1898)

Hawes, Brigadier General James Morrison, (1824-1889) Confederate, commander of Galveston Island, in military uniform but insignia removed per postwar Federal regulations

Holloway, Captain Edmund or Edmunds B., in Mexican War uniform from painting, circa 1846-1848; Holloway was in the West Point class of 1843

Longstreet, General James and General Xavier DeBray and unknown man at Mark’s Photographic Gallery, Houston; and another cdv of Longstreet with group of ex-Confederates and civilians includes Longstreet, Dowling, and others at an outdoor gathering

Magruder, Major General John Bankhead, (1807-1871) with Galveston imprint and Confederate flag verso; served in Mexican War and in the Confederate Army with great success at the Battle of Galveston

Mayfield, J.E., 12th Texas Infantry, as a veteran in wheelchair with wife

Rayburn, Captain Howell A., C.S.A. "Banditti," a notorious young guerilla fighter from Texas who organized his own command in Arkansas and led big raids

Reeves, Colonel George Robertson (1826-1882)

Robertson, George L., Co. B, 4th Texas Infantry, "Tom Green Rifles"

Robinson, W.M.

Terrell, Alexander Watkins

Unidentified Major, Confederate States Army, has been identified as possibly General William Steele or Major Richard Thomas Brownrigg

Wagner, Maria, Galveston, Texas, marked C.S.A. and three children

Walker, Major General John George (1822-1893) (Walker’s Greyhounds)

Waul, Brigadier General Thomas Neville, (1813-1903)

Whitfield, Major J.T., son of General J.W. Whitfield

Wigfall, General Louis Trezevant

Wilcox, Major General Cadmus Marcellus

Wilson, Captain D.M., postwar as civilian

Wilson, Jeptha, 6th Texas Infantry, C.S.A.

Unidentified soldiers of the First Texas Infantry, Confederate States Army, Dumfries, Virginia in camp outside log building doing laundry and perhaps cooking, cdv with Marks Houston gallery back mark. This carte de visite is probably a post-Civil War copy of an outdoor ambrotype scene at Wigfall Mess near Dumfries, Virginia. It is thought to be by Solomon Thomas Blessing, a soldier from Galveston in General John Bell Hood's Texas Brigade, of troops during the winter of 1861-1862. One of the soldiers is Private Joseph Nagle from Austin.

Confederate, cdv of soldier returned home after war with child on his lap

Hatch, Major General Edward, commander of a Black Seminole soldiers regiment

Haynes, Colonel John Leal, (1821-1888) active in Mexican War, and commander of first and second Texas Cavalry regiments during the Civil War, with his wife, Angelica I. Haynes

Haysinger, W., 39th Indiana Regiment, Brownsville

Higley, Julius H., 109th USCT

House of Representatives, Austin, Texas post-Civil War with thumbnail images of all 87, Confederates elected right after the war, 11th Texas Legislature ousted by the Yankees, printed identifications verso

Unidentified soldiers and officers and miscellaneous militia and military school cdvs, circa 1860-1880, including Buffalo soldier, Squad of Co. C 34th Indiana Veteran Infantry, Lieutenant of Texas Army of Occupation, and Union Army officers, cavalry, and infantry soldiers

People, Historical Texas

Barry, James Buckner "Buck" (1821-1906) and Dr. Russell, as elderly men, tintype. Barry was a Texas Ranger and Confederate

Bonny, Dr. E.T., family physician to J.P. Osterhout’s family in Bellville, Texas

Borden, Emeline Eunace Church, Gail Borden’s third wife

Borden, Gail, Jr., a young child so not the right age for Gail Borden, Jr., perhaps a grandson

Borden, Louisa R. Graves, Thomas Borden’s second wife

Borden, Thomas S., brother of Gail Borden, Galveston, tintype

Gaines, Matthew (?), (1840-1900), African American activist

Hunt, Memucan, (1807-1856), active in the Texas Revolution and the Mexican War

Johnson, Lizzie – see Elizabeth Johnson Williams

Kleberg, Robert Justus [II], (1853-1932), son of Robert Justice Kleberg and head of the King Ranch

Labadie, Dr. Nicholas Descomps (1802-1867), carte de visite copy of a daguerreotype or ambrotype of Canadian physician who was in the battle of San Jacinto and wrote a controversial account of the battle

Lungkwitz, Hermann (?), artist (2)

Menger, William in his volunteer fireman's uniform

Onderdonk, Robert J., artist in serape and leather pants holding a cigar

Osterhout, John Patterson (1826-1903) lawyer, journalist, politician and family related:

Dow (?), Mrs.

Hoffman, E.N.

Marcy, A. and son (2)

Neyland, Cora

Osterhout, Chloe E.

Osterhout, Eunice, wife of P.M. Osterhout

Osterhout, Gertrude

Osterhout, Isaac

Osterhout, Marcy, son of Edgar Osterhout

Osterhout, Orlando

Osterhout, Hon. P.M.

Osterhout, Paul

Osterhout, Mrs. Sarah

Osterhout, Thomas

Osterhout, Mrs. Thomas

Parrott, Robert B. (1848-1903)

Pinson, Reverend J. F., Dallas preacher and wife (4)

Queen Emma of Hawaii with Austin Photograph Company back mark

Stone, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel T. Jr. – father and son operated a ferry in Austin

Ford, John Salmon "Rip", (1815-1897) among the portraits are Rip Ford dressed in uniform of Confederate Army colonel, circa 1865 carte de visite studio portrait by Louis de Planque done at Matamoros, Mexico or Brownsville, Texas. Rip Ford was a legendary Texas Ranger, Indian fighter, historian, and journalist, who won for the Confederacy the last land battle of the Civil War--the Battle of Palmito Ranch, May 13, 1865.

Granbury, General H. B., only war-time photograph of him, taken in Baltimore when he was a paroled prisoner of war before he was exchanged. He resumed his Confederate military service until he was killed in action at the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, November 30, 1864.

Houston, Samuel, (1793-1863) portraits – one circa 1860 and a copy from a painting of Sam Houston as a Cherokee (2)

Galveston, aftermath of a devastating hurricane in 1867, 3 views, including Strand under water, Burnt District in 1877, Catholic Church, Tremont Street

Houston, D. P. Barr late 1860s view of Tom Thumb's carriage, a church alter, Blessing & Bros. cdv showing steam-pumping fire truck with crowd of diverse ethnic types, Houston & Texas Central Railway Company locomotive #8, the W.R. Baker, and tender in front of a hardware and dry goods shop and Wahrenbeck & Co. office (William Robinson Baker (1820-1890) was mayor of Houston, state legislator and president of the Houston &Texas Central Railway) circa 1865-1866, earliest view of a train in Texas in the collection

Jacksboro, very early view across from Fort Richardson, 1866

Kaufmann, travelling Sherman Brass Band being pulled in

Rio Grande City, street scene

San Antonio, circa 1860s views of Nuestra Senora de la Purisima Concepcion de Acuna Mission and San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo Mission, artistic shots of San Antonio area by A. J. Dignowity, Menger Hotel 1869-1872

Miscellaneous animals, etc., street scene of woman on pony by William Bliss, a view of buffalo in Texas (related to an expedition by photographer A.C. Troutman working for I.R. Martin and wife in Texas in the 1860s and 1870s, “dog and pony show” as part of circus during Reconstruction era (two U.S. Army soldiers are pictured in background) by Lee gallery – W. W. Sloan, Jefferson, and horned toads (2.

Maximilian’s Austrian troops in Matamoros by Constant & Stephen, once housed in album

Mejía, Tomás (2)

Miramón, Miguel (1832-1867) (2)

Morelos, Jose Maria(1765-1815)

Napoleon III, "Photographic Novelty" political caricature

Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez de (1784-1876) (2)

Unidentified, Mexican charro with saddle, French soldier in Mexico, Mexican ranchero with lasso by French photographer Merille, water carrier

Vidaurri, Santiago (1809-1867) executed in Mexico City

Cartes de Visite – Texas Photographers’ Back Mark Studio Imprints

This is a comprehensive collection of cartes de visite (cdvs) from the 1860s-1880s with back mark studio imprints providing much information on Texas photographers and their locations. There is a good concentration of such major photographers as Barr & Wright, Blessing, Louis De Planque, Henry A. Doerr, S.B. Hill, H.B. Hillyer, H.R. Marks, Martin’s Gallery; Mrs. Martin, Photographic artist, W.J. Oliphant, George Schuwirth, J. Serdinko, and R.H. Wallis, and some by travelling photographers, along with imprints of lesser known and, in some cases, undocumented photographers.

Occupational and mixed subject matter include: steam boat captain from Jefferson, Max Krüger (see Howes & Herd) itinerant photographer image of a man before and after his death in a ship explosion, musicians, firemen, carpenter with tools, preacher at Fort Griffin, priest, nun, first communion boys, girls with dolls, cowboys, people in costume, etc. Also included are some tintypes by cdv photographers. Cdvs are arranged alphabetically by photographer. (815 cartes de visite)

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Cartes de visite, A-misc. H (282 cdvs)

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Cartes de visite, Hillyer-O (263 cdvs)

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Cartes de visite, P-Z; Traveling; Occupational (240 cdvs)

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Cartes de Visite – Indians (32 cdvs) [Vault]

Tonkawa collection, with a few Comanche, Kiowa and Apache including: Tonkawa Head chief Castile, Tonkawa chief Grant Richards, Comanche Indian man, Tonkawa Indian boy named Joe, two unidentified Tonkawa Indian boys, three Indian men with caption verso “Comanche warriors”, 2 cdvs of two Tonkawa women, Jenny and Tansy, and another of two Tonkawa women, Tin cup and Minnehaha, group including U.S. Army Surgeon Dr. Gunning and Tonkawa Grant Richards as a young boy, Tonkawa Indian girl named Rosa, Tonkawa scout named Buffalo at Fort Griffin, Tonkawa Indian man named Wild Cat, Ida and Tonkawa Indian named Johnson, Comanche Indian woman, Johnson, chief of Tonkawa scouts under Ranald Mackenzie (Johnson was his English name, he was half Tonkawa and Lipan-Apache); Tonkawa chief Campo, Hi-i-in (George Miles), Joe and John Williams, Kiowa chief Satanta, unidentified Kiowa or Comanche wearing armor, Satanta (Kiowa) and Bull (Comanche) (taken when Satanta was in prison in Huntsville with Bull (in prison stripes), Three Indian chiefs (possibly Kiowa Lone Wolf in center, other two uncertain,) unidentified couple, children, and man, Ketchi woman, Tonkawa (?) scout probably made at Fort Concho by Ragsdale; includes excellent material-culture and ethnography that documents how the tribe outfitted themselves (includes silver hair pieces), etc. Also included are two small albums relating to cdvs in collection that were previously removed, Album, maroon fabric album with 10 pages, all photographs removed, handwritten note inside cover: “Tonkawa cdvs in this album.” Photographs, manuscript notation inside cover, “Given to my grandmother Mary, Clark, 1869,” 8 pages, all photographs removed, manuscript Tonkawa Indian names under openings. Pottawattamie, W. P. Bliss imprint. Also 3 cdvs of Elisha and Abram Anglin, who were witness to the Fort Parker massacre in 1836.

Two boxes of cabinet card portraits arranged by photographer’s studio name with a wide variety of Texas photographer imprints. Box 2 includes some occupational images: military, light house keeper, people with animals, gymnast, children with toys, man with beer steins, men with wine, mailman, women hunters with rifles, costumes, one forgery (Conner's McKinney, town scene), Blanco card of a depressed man with "Blue" written on his shoe sole, couple on Caddo, Indian Territory card, boy on high-wheeler cycle, humorous subjects, various types including travelling snake-oil salesman, cowboy, unidentified photography, man with violin, baseball player, first communion, priest, tennis players, young man on bicycle, Eagle Pass, Chinese laundryman, El Paso.
Also included are such famous people as David Ayres (1793-1881), James, "Buck" Barry and family, Professor L.A. Bailey of Simmons College, Abilene and cowboy Reverend Jesse Morgan Salter, General Servando Canales, Madame Candelaria, only survivor at the Alamo, Thomas T. Holloway, Oran Roberts (3), and thumbnail portraits of members of the Twenty-second Texas Legislature.

Austin, University School of Aeronautics, Austin, woman in cockpit of plane, 1928

Austin, Waller Creek, 1938

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Austin and vicinity, Barton’s Creek, Bee Spring with Hillyer possibly in photograph,and Ware or weir Canal attributed to Hillyer. Two photographs of Mount Bonnell and Onion Creek are attributed to C. W. Eddy and were included in U. S. geological survey of Texas reports, published in1889 and 1890 by Robert T. Hill.

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Barstow, ranch, small house with thatch roof and cowboys, W.G. Altenburgh, architect and superintendent

Bastrop, bar/saloon

Batson, teamsters camp

Beaumont, dredging for deep-water on the Neches River

Biardstown, Anglo cotton pickers, some women by Lee Skidmore

Bonham, bank by M.E. Hartman

Bonham, home with family

Brady, Wade Transfer Co., circa 1910

Brownsville, headquarters of General Reynolds, 1867 by C. H. Boyd

Buffalo, Texas store buildings of I. M. Pearlstone & Sons, 1894 (2)

Buffalo Bayou, cotton compress

Buffalo Bayou, Cumming’s Saw Mill

Buffalo Bayou, Inman compress near Harrisburg

Buffalo Bayou, mesquite bush

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(22 photographs)

Canton, bridge with wagon, 1898

Cameron County, prostitutes

Carmine, Sheriff James S. Scarborough with Andrew Harris, an African American man about to be hanged, 1909

Del Rio, sailing on the Rio Grande, also railroad track by Charles T. Wilmeth (id from duplicate with imprint)

Denton?, store interior

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Eagle Pass, coal mines by F. Chapman

Eagle Pass, Da Bono family in wagon with donkeys, 1893 by Beach

Eagle Pass, depot with railroad cars and wagons with cotton by Beach

Eagle Pass, Eagle Pass Rifles, Maverick County jail guards, 1891, two images of soldiers in Eagle Pass in anticipation of a Garza War raid to break into the jail and free prisoner Catarino Erasmo Garza (persons identified in ink) (2)

Eagle Pass, Infantry at camp, 1896

Eagle Pass, landscape by F. Chapman

Eden, Concho County, Anglo cotton pickers

El Paso, Mexican carreta (ox cart) by Parker (2)

El Paso, Fort Bliss by Parker

Enchanted Rock

Estacado, cattle ranch in Yellow House Canyon circa 1880s

Estacado, town building with large group of mostly men

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Fayette County, town scene with wagons

Fayette County, German family

Fayette County, restaurant/store interior, circa 1944 (2)

Fischer, group of cotton pickers

Flatonia, town view with store fronts by G. A. Pannewitz

Floresville, bird’s eye view from court house

Floyd, cotton gin

Fort Clark

Fort Hancock (3)

Fort Stockton, early views (5)

Fort Worth, Texas Spring Palace, 1889 by G.C. Rhine

Fort Worth, St. James 2nd Street Baptist Church

Friona, town view with crowd, 1908

Frost, town view, 1904

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(30 photographs)

Galveston, Brigham-San Jacinto monument unveiling with flag carried at San Jacinto by Rose

Waco, image of parade float with advertising for "Goldstein and Migel Dry Goods, Clothing, Hats and Shoes" also a sign on the second floor of building for Deane’s Photograph Gallery, photograph by W.D. Jackson

Indians: Tonkawa Indians, rare 1873 view of Tonkawa village at Fort Griffin showing four figures, horses, tepee, Comanche papoose, Ponto and Lone Bear (Kiowa warriors who were participants in the last Indian raid in Texas in 1897, made when they were very old- Lone Bear is carrying the shield and bow he took on the raid and is painted white), Big Tree Kiowa chief from which Gentilz painting was made with some interesting alterations (p. 107, Kendall Gentilz), Comanche women at Fort Sill, Isa-Tai Comanche medicine man who fomented Adobe Walls (circa 1873), Comanche girls (identified by name) on horseback on Vernon card, Kiowa couple Red Otter wearing peyote imagery and wife, group of noteworthy Comanche including Quanah Parker, the only Quanah Parker image with a Texas imprint in the collection.Also, a non-Texas image of a Ruidoso, New Mexico store with grouping of Mescalero Apache and their wives (includes artifacts such as beaded work) by A. J. Buck.

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People

Portraits: Studio and outdoor portraits, including a band with women wearing oriental costumes; ; Col. Robert Hall Cotulla, “Indian Fighter and Hero of Three Wars,” with Republic of Texas ribbons (San Jacinto veteran), gun and a famous Lafitte pirate powder horn (has been published in a book about Hall) and hunting dogs; Pasquale De Bona and another of the De Bona family with bicycles; Otto Rosenberg with cotton; E. W. Thornton posing with mastodon fossils, Bonham; Sheriff Dave C. Humphreys, Newton County; Gathering with Ellinger True Blue Brass Band; Members of the Order of the Eastern Star; D.A.R. Monument Dedication for Nancy Sturdevant Griggs, Chatfield, Texas, 1941; two Asian men in El Paso; unusual image of woman advertising photography, clothed in dress with cabinet card portraits attached to it and on her hat for the Trade Carnival in Greenville, August 1899. Also includes a possible non-Texas image of store that may be Cooperton, Oklahoma.

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Mounted photographs, 11 x 14 and smaller

People

Civil War: Portraits - hand-painted photograph of Major George Washington Lafayette Fly, (1835-1905) Second Texas Infantry Regiment, C.S.A.; cdv of Union officer inscribed verso, "Colonel G.H. Hanks, Adams Express Agt. Brownsville, Texas;" Colonel J.A. Andrews, 32nd Texas Cavalry Regiment, C.S.A. taken after the Civil War at house in Grapevine; one-legged Confederate veteran on crutches; copy print of the seven legislators who voted against Secession; full-length portrait General Samuel Heintzelman, USA taken in Texas circa 1865-1866; Civil War Reunions: last Confederate Convention held in Texas, 1902, in Waxahachie; group portrait of Confederate veterans and a Confederate veterans barbeque in 1912 at Camp Ben McCulloch, Driftwood; Confederate veterans of Cherokee County with inscription that reads: "NO HARM IN US NOW"

Portraits: portrait of Olin H. Ragsdale and another of his wife, a portrait of a woman in top hat and tuxedo attire advertising "Fred Diercks the Tailor," outdoor portrait of older couple with birthday cake, Coleman; group portrait of the Texas Conference of the Evangelical Association, San Antonio; portrait of several members of the GCB - Georgetown German musicians; a single photograph with thumbnail portraits from the Sudliche Deutsche Conferenz der B.M. Kirche, Brenham, Tex., Nov. 23, 1903, Fakulteat von Blinn Memorial College

3. The Photographic Album, embossed brown leather cover, mostly cdvs but also includes some tintypes; inscribed inside facing title page, "To Cull Collins From Sister Katie." Most cdvs are of the Burrell H. Collins family, also Simmons, Johnson, Baldwin, Douglas, Devereaux, and Dellis families. Photographers from Water Valley, Mississippi, Jackson, Tennessee, and Waco, Texas, circa 1860s and 1870s. Cull Collins appears to have lost a leg in the Civil War as there is a cdv of him with one leg removed at the knee seated holding a crutch and another with him seated next to another man with his hand on the other man’s knee hiding his missing leg. 70 cdvs and tintypes.

5. The Photograph Album, small brown leather album with embossed covers, circa 1863: 13 cdv portraits; includes note that some cdvs were removed by Jones are with the other cdvs under "Mexico"; includes index to photographs with some of the sitter’s names, some German names and some Spanish, also a portrait of Emperor Maximillian by Neurdein, Paris, France. Manuscript note on one cdv identifies it was taken in Matamoros. Most photographs by H.B. Hillyer (Austin) or have no imprint.

15. Photographs, 1904. 21 photographic prints 3 x 3 in. glued on 7 black paper pages. White manuscript notations sometimes difficult to decipher. Photographs of a man and a woman perhaps from Kansas City and their trip to Austin, Texas showing the state capitol, Confederate monument, court house, state land office, post office, and house at #119 W.8th Street.

16. Souvenirs. GIC and hand painted flowers on album cover, verso: "1904, S.C.K." 8 prints 4 ½ x 6 ½ in. of activities at the Girls Industrial College of Texas which opened to the public in 1903 in Denton, the name later changed to Texas Women’s University. The school was to educate women in literary education, domestic sciences, child care, nursing and give them vocational training. The photographs, perhaps platinum prints, are glued on gray paper pages. Subjects include: the main school building, gardening, cooking, class work, tennis, shop work using tools, and dress making. Also numerous magazine clippings with recipes and practical advice.

18. Snapshots on black fabric cover, dedication on inside cover: "To Nola Hutchinson, age 15, from Daddy. July 12, 1922." 68 photographs glued to black paper sheets; 1 loose portrait of baby 5 ½ x 4 in. mounted on 7 ¾ x 6 in. board. Included are photographs of and by Nola Hutchinson or her family of the Oak Grove School house, family gatherings, a car trip to New Mexico and Colorado, clipping about high school graduation

A brown leather family snapshot album with miscellaneous views mostly in Texas, some Oklahoma. (1 album)

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John J. Haynes Family Collection, [Vault]

1. Photographs, John J. Haynes family album, small light brown embossed fabric cover with painted oval inset and white studs. Early Haynes family Texas cowboy views from Blanco County. 12 cdvs, some tintypes in the album, circa 1860-1870s. Includes note that Jones removed 13 cdvs and tintypes from the album, and they are stored in a separate marked envelope. Included in the same box: 17 loose tintypes, several by George Schuwirth, Austin, 1 cdv with Civil War tax stamp verso; 1 tintype of C. P. Haynes as an old man, 1 more recent photograph of couple in front of house, among the group is a tintype of Caleb Holden identified as an "Indian fighter."

2. 1 book: Elliot’s Book of Forms: for the use of stockmen, farmers, and all persons engaged in buying and selling live stock or personal property. Containing agreements, bills of sale, deeds, leases, powers of attorney, marks and brands and memoranda. Also the Stock Law (Austin, Texas: O. H. Elliott Publ., 1881). (1 album; 1 book) [Vault]

Portraits of photographers and important photographer's covers: W.H. Adams, series of cartes de visite of daughter and granddaughter D. P. Barr (photographer in Civil War in Vicksburg), portraits of various Texas photographers including George Bennett, W. M. Bruce photographer's card with his photo tipped onto it-no later than 1866, Bushong & Gray, Van Alstyne, Texas, Clogenson’s studio, photographer Phillip R. Cook with his camera, portrait of Delfraisse, Louis de Planque's photograph of his studio in Brownsville (de Planque was one of the first in Texas to do extensive outdoor photography and among the first journalistic photographers in Texas,
he came with Maximilian's army and was Franco-Prussian, had photography studios on both sides of the Rio Grande, and his wife worked with him), full-length portrait of de Planque in jaguar skin coat and charro pants, stereo of San Antonio photograph gallery of Doerr, Flatonia, snow scene, February, 1895 and others including self-portraits (5) by Anton Foitik, probably an amateur photographer; Latourette stereos with camera shadow, George K. Miller, Conrad Petersen cabinet card envelope sleeves, J. Frank P’Pool and family members, George Schuwirth's Austin photography gallery, John Trlica and ad with map of Texas, K. Vasbinder, S.S. Ward and daughter, images relating to Texas photography: young women and girls pictured with stereo viewers and cased images, several interiors of photographers’ studios, including one by Marks Lewison and another of Hegemann’s studio, wagon outside Hanak photo studio in Hallettesville, mantel with photograph wall display, woman with view camera, travelling photographer's wagon at Kenedy, postcard with Mexican photographer and Schlueter’s studio ca.1920s.

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Photographica and ephemera related to 19th and early 20th century Texas photography

Photographs, Blessing family album with green fabric cover, circa 1918-1930s. Approximately 221 snapshot photographs mounted on black paper sheets; includes images of family, friends, automobiles, houses, the Blessing store in Fort Worth, a Navy dirigible, the grave of a soldier who died, 1918, many babies and birth announcements; 7 unmounted photographs, includes 3 portraits of photographer S.T. (Solomon Thomas) Blessing; 2 of headstone in cemetery (before death); son, John T. Blessing and an S.T. Blessing Photo Supply calendar for 1912 with photograph of Blessing. See Blessing’s biography in Peter E. Palmquist, Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide: 1839-1865 (2005). R. H. Wallis,
photographer, unmounted whole plate albumen print of Wallis and other photographs, probably of his family, from an album found under a house, cdvs by photographer R.H. Wallis, Brownsville and portrait of Wallis and family. Also in the collection is an advertisement for Mrs. Martin's photographic studio in The Daily Austin Republican, May 27, 1869. Photographer's coupons and trade cards, and ephemera, including an 1856 letter from would be ambrotypist "studying the art;" 1866 letter from Federal soldier (6th U.S. Cavalry in Austin, Texas) sending ambrotype home to loved ones; a boudoir card showing exterior of E.K. Sturdevant’s Keystone photography gallery, including the photographer with camera in doorway, San Antonio, Texas; unusual railroad photo gallery on train; two men near large tin water barrel in front of Lott's Photograph Gallery and John Christenson’s tin shop, circa 1900, blindstamp on mount by M. D. Lott, Clifton, Texas; a decorative 1908 calendar of a little girl holding a camera from the Lyman Drug Co., Eagle Pass.

William James Oliphant (1845-1930) Collection

William James Oliphant was a photographer working in Austin after the Civil War. The Oliphant Collection consists of cased images, tintypes, cartes de visite, and cabinet cards, 1840-1870s. He was the father-in-law of historian Walter Prescott Webb, see the 1932 article in SWHQ by Webb discussing the importance of early Texas photography and need to be utilized in research. There are also Oliphant stereographs from this collection stored with the other stereo views.

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Oliphant Family Cased Images

Oliphant Family Cased Images. The cased images, daguerreotypes (13), ambrotypes (2) and tintypes (5), circa 1850-1870 are all from Walter Prescott Webb, Oliphant’s son-in-law, only a few are identified, but some may relate to Bryan family (needs research), all were in the Oliphant family collection, many have the Oliphant imprint inside the case. Webb married Oliphant's daughter and lived with the Oliphants in his old age. Collection includes William J. Oliphant’s tintype portrait while in the 6th Texas Infantry Regiment, CSA. He was captured later by Union troops who took his gold buttons. Gold buttons on his uniform were made from Mexican gold coins.
Oliphant's parents were jewelers on 6th Street, Austin. The quarter plate tintype is in fair condition, somewhat dark and a few dents. Published in Jones CC, and elsewhere.*

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Oliphant Family Photographs

The group has about 22 cdv images of Oliphant at various phases of his life and career and eight tintypes of him, some before the Civil War, and three cabinet cards of Oliphant as an older man, an unusual number of photographs of a single photographer in one collection. Some of the cdvs show Oliphant with family members and sometimes holding stereoscopes. There are also cdvs of the Stuart and Townsend families related to Oliphant or his wife and a group of cdvs of unidentified people, many with tax stamps and from New Orleans. Also includes an image of Oliphant's father reading an Austin newspaper. Many of these cdvs have rare Texas imprints, such as a studio on Pecan Street. Some have personal inscriptions relating to the sitters.

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Oliphant/Gardner/Pywell Cartes de Visite [Vault]

Oliphant studied photography in Alexander Gardner’s Washington, DC studio circa 1867-1869, and there are a number of cdv images in the Oliphant Collection that were made in Gardner’s studio. It appears that Oliphant and photographer, William R. Pywell were acquainted; the collection includes several portraits made in Gardner’s studio of Pywell, who worked with Gardner, and Pywell’s sister, Laura Pywell who later became Timothy O’Sullivan’s wife and Eddie Pywell. There are also cdvs from the Pywell & Sterzing studio in Austin and the W.R. Pywell Photographic Studio in Homer, Louisiana. Also included is an 1869 portrait of photographer George Robinson by David Knox with his notes verso on the photograph.
Gardner’s portrait of Timothy O'Sullivan in this collection is one of few autographed images of him.

Austin, many views including old capital before it burned, old capital burned and interior view of the ruins, old pontoon bridge for crossing river to south, view at top of Mt. Bonnell, Congress Avenue, photography galleries

Baird

Bandera

Beaumont, including oil boom

Belton

Bonham

Brenham, court house with horses tied up

Brownsville, including Fort Brown

Camp Verde

Cisco, Cattle Exchange Saloon

Clarksville

Cleburne

Comfort, Union monument to Nueces Massacre right after it was constructed (rare)

Cuero

Dallas, good views including Dallas County courthouse, studio of photographer Alfred Freeman

Fort Clark, some at the height of the Indian Wars, laundress and camp followers quarters, officers, Seminole camp, jacal houses with chimneys, 2 variant views, both with a Seminole woman in Victorian dress with a Lipan chief

Kiowa Chief Big Bow with his adopted Mexican captive photographed in Santa Fe (he was among the last to go to the reservation)

14 views of Native American prisoners of war sent to Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Florida, 1875; many pictured are identified, including Capt. Pratt who who accompanied the Indian prisoners and founded the Carlisle School, Lone Wolf and Mamante, only known photo of Kiowa medicine man who supervised raids into Texas from the 1860s

Leach & Hanna.

Strong collection of Leach & Hanna and Leach & Shannon, photographers who worked in Cherokee County and Llano County. Includes their broken down photo wagon at Old Government Crossing on the Pecos River, Seminole Canyon, staged hold-up on the way to Big Bend, Hot Springs across from Mexico, mines at Shafter, Fort Davis, Mexican children, interiors of Mexico, Mexican religious plays, caves in Kinney County, Alamo, Santa Elena Canyon, and Mexican jacals.

R. R. Parker

Stereos with good genre views, social history, picnics,

Texas Buffalo Hunt

9 views with Oliphant imprint, photographed by George Robertson, documenting a Texas buffalo hunt near Abilene in 1874, thought to be earliest photographs of a buffalo hunt in North America (see p. 189 in James L. Haley's Texas: An Album of History...). Walter Prescott Webb traced down the last survivor of the hunt Emil Obervetter, who described the hunt and gave the itinerary. This is the largest collection of images from this expedition.

Texas Land & Copper Association

Troutman stereos from the 1872 expedition for which M. K. Kellogg kept the journal. Collection includes Colbert's Ferry on the Red River, engineers having dinner in the forest, scenes of and near Fort Richardson, repairing a break in a railroad on Creek lands, ruins of Fort Belknap showing officer's quarters, "Island Home" at Fort Richardson showing prostitutes, Clear Fork of the Brazos River show photo wagon going up the hill toward Fort Griffin, Tonkawa Indian Village at Fort Griffin (extremely rare type of image), guard at spring at Fort Richardson, Jacksboro, Texas.

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Stereographs: Special Collections

Texas View Company

Texas Centennial, 1936 set with 25 cards. Also includes a set of unpublished stereos with manuscript notations, perhaps unpublished, and a salesman sampler book entitled Texas History Photographs with miniature 336 stereo halves reproduced.

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Stereographs, Mexico (102 stereographs)

A variety of Mexican subjects, Chilapa, Cuernavaca, Puebla, Pachuca, Guadalajara, Guanajuato, Saltillo, mining, an early series by Alberto Fahrenberg of Monterey, etc.

The real photographic postcard collection consists of many early city and small town views, also sports, parades, schools, oil, stores, agriculture, Indians, the Mexican Revolution, Texas Rangers, circa 1900-1939, arranged by town and subject.

Indians: group of Kiowa and Comanche images excellent for artifacts such as cradle boards, includes Quanah Parker in a parade in Lawton, by Bates, home of Quanah Parker in Cache, Oklahoma, burial of the remains of Quanah Parker when he was reburied, West Texas Indian village,

Mexican Revolution in Texas: revolutionaries, soldaderas, etc.

People and misc.: bicyclists, cowboys, cowgirls, L.D. Bertillion a collector of long horns with a huge horn, comical card of man with knife and fork sitting on a fat hog, Lindbergh and plane (Texas to Mexico City 1922), allegorical image of Prosperity done at Fort Worth, men with buffalo skulls possibly in Oklahoma or Kansas, funny dunning card of two men holding shotguns, Texas Confederate veteran with battle flag he saved (the flag showed up a few years ago at Fort Smith), oil wells, grave of Crockett's wife, Onalaska, tent revival meeting, "Old Rip" the famous horned toad,

Texas Rangers: Borger 1920s chain gang

Not Texas: Includes both real photographic and printed postcards, some Louisiana, Mexico, Wolfman Jack's station at Villa Acuña, New Mexico, Oklahoma

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Postcards, Printed (427 postcards)

The printed postcard collection consists of a wide variety of subjects including towns, most major cities (many Dallas and Greenville), Gulf Coast, West Texas, Texas oil, agriculture, street scenes, schools, churches, circa 1905-1970. Also includes large-letter cards, cowboys and cowgirls, Indians, topical and humorous subjects, Texas "critters," horned toads, longhorn steer, huge rabbits, World War II military, John F. Kennedy in Austin in 1960, and a few non-Texas postcards, Mexico, New Mexico and Oklahoma.

2) Quanah Parker, Chief of Comanche Indians… in large group made probably for a Fourth of July Parade in Chickasha Oklahoma by photographer, "That Man Stone," panoramic gelatin silver print, circa 1908-1910